Triple

T7508
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boston Tea Party E149 entity
Predicate opposedPolicy P437 FINISHED
Object Townshend Acts (tea tax component)
The Townshend Acts (tea tax component) were British parliamentary measures that imposed duties on imported tea to the American colonies, becoming a major source of colonial resentment and a key trigger for events like the Boston Tea Party.
E3784 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Townshend Acts (tea tax component) | Statement: [Boston Tea Party, opposedPolicy, Townshend Acts (tea tax component)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Townshend Acts (tea tax component)
Context triple: [Boston Tea Party, opposedPolicy, Townshend Acts (tea tax component)]
  • A. Tea Act
    The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
  • B. Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
  • C. Funding Act of 1790
    The Funding Act of 1790 was a key early U.S. federal law, championed by Alexander Hamilton, that consolidated and refinanced Revolutionary War debts to establish the credit of the new national government.
  • D. Coinage Act of 1834
    The Coinage Act of 1834 was a U.S. law that significantly altered the gold-to-silver ratio and the gold content of coins, helping to stabilize the currency and encourage the circulation of gold.
  • E. Treasury Act of 1789
    The Treasury Act of 1789 was a foundational U.S. law that created the Department of the Treasury and established the federal government's core financial and fiscal administration.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Townshend Acts (tea tax component)
Triple: [Boston Tea Party, opposedPolicy, Townshend Acts (tea tax component)]
Generated description
The Townshend Acts (tea tax component) were British parliamentary measures that imposed duties on imported tea to the American colonies, becoming a major source of colonial resentment and a key trigger for events like the Boston Tea Party.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Townshend Acts (tea tax component)
Target entity description: The Townshend Acts (tea tax component) were British parliamentary measures that imposed duties on imported tea to the American colonies, becoming a major source of colonial resentment and a key trigger for events like the Boston Tea Party.
  • A. Tea Act
    The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
  • B. Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
  • C. Funding Act of 1790
    The Funding Act of 1790 was a key early U.S. federal law, championed by Alexander Hamilton, that consolidated and refinanced Revolutionary War debts to establish the credit of the new national government.
  • D. Coinage Act of 1834
    The Coinage Act of 1834 was a U.S. law that significantly altered the gold-to-silver ratio and the gold content of coins, helping to stabilize the currency and encourage the circulation of gold.
  • E. Treasury Act of 1789
    The Treasury Act of 1789 was a foundational U.S. law that created the Department of the Treasury and established the federal government's core financial and fiscal administration.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a23bb612708190b09f25385e4b63d1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24659cfe0819088c2e8a61c2274f3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e52b304819094ffde051ec9bde3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a24ede3374819089e7fae28c6c9d63 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a24fc8a2a881909e5ae2e03757fbec completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 12:54 a.m.